Address, language, timezone & formatting
Your business's address, language, formatting and currency settings all live on a single page in Breww. Most of them apply to your whole business account rather than to you personally, so a change here affects what every user sees.
Where to find these settings
Go to Settings, open the Business & account settings menu, and choose Address, language, timezone & formatting. You'll need the Settings permission to open this page.
Business details
Business name
This is the name Breww uses for your business inside the app, and on documents such as your price list PDF.
Note: It is not the name printed on the invoices you send your customers (that comes from your invoicing details), and it is not the name on the invoices Breww sends you (see Change your business name, address or billing email).
Business address
Start typing your address and pick it from the suggestions, or fill the fields in by hand. Breww also stores the map coordinates for the address, working them out for you if the suggestion you picked didn't include them.
Your business address is used as:
- the default collection or dispatch address for couriers and for delivery route planning, when the site involved doesn't have an address of its own
- the delivery address on purchase orders when no other address is given
- a fallback when working out the correct tax rate on an order or credit note, if there is no delivery address and no billing address to use instead
Why the country in your address matters
The country you're in quietly drives quite a lot of wording and behaviour across Breww:
- What sales tax is called. UK breweries see VAT, US breweries see Sales tax, Canada GST/HST, Germany USt, France TVA, the Netherlands BTW, and so on.
- The title on invoice PDFs. Breweries in Australia and New Zealand get "Tax invoice" rather than "Invoice".
- The name of the bank code field on your invoicing details, such as Sort code, BSB, Routing code or IFSC.
- Whether distances are shown in miles or kilometres.
- The large volume unit used in places like reporting and a customer's estimated annual volume: hectolitres or US beer barrels.
- US TTB behaviour, which is switched on for US-based breweries.
All of these are worked out from your country whenever a page is loaded, so changing your country changes the wording throughout Breww straight away, including on records created before the change.
Warning: If your business is genuinely moving country, please talk to the Breww support team before changing it. Your alcohol duty setup, tax rates and Breww's own subscription tax all depend on this setting.
Two things that people often expect to come from the country actually don't:
- What Breww calls your drink (beer, cider, wine, and so on) comes from your drink types, in Settings and then Production settings.
- The name of the duty section in the main menu comes from the duty rules used by your drink types, not from your address.
Editing your Breww billing details
If your Breww account isn't a test account, there's an Edit billing details button at the top of this page. That opens the separate name, address and email that appear on the invoices Breww sends you. Changing your business details here does not change those, and vice versa.
Breww account settings
Unit system
This is shown here for reference but can't be edited on this page. To switch between metric and imperial, go to Settings and then Production settings.
User interface language
Sets the default language for everyone in your business. Individual users can pick a different language for themselves in their own profile, which overrides this. See Language & translations for the full picture, including how you can help improve Breww's translations.
Date & number formatting style
This controls how Breww writes dates, times, money, volumes and weights. It is a formatting choice only and is separate from the interface language, so you can read Breww in English while still using, for example, German date and number formatting.
As soon as you change the selection, Breww shows a live preview underneath the field with example dates, times, money amounts, volumes and weights in the style you've chosen, so you can check it before saving.
Unlike the interface language, this applies to every user in your business. There is no personal override.
Timezone
All dates and times in Breww are shown in this timezone, and it is the timezone used when Breww works out "today" for things like scheduled tasks and reports.
If your web browser reports a different timezone from the one on your account, Breww shows a warning under this field with a one-click button to switch to the timezone your browser suggests. This is worth paying attention to when you first set your account up, or if you've moved.
Like the formatting style, this applies to the whole business and can't be overridden per user.
Base currency
Your main accounting currency. Every total, report and aggregate figure in Breww is presented in it.
This field is locked and can't be changed here. Changing a base currency after an account is in use is a significant migration, so please contact the Breww support team if you think you need to. See Multi-currency support for more.
Other usable currencies
Any additional currencies you want to be able to use on orders, credit notes, price books and so on. Your base currency is always available and doesn't appear in this list. Only currencies you select here can be used elsewhere in Breww, so if a currency isn't offered when you're creating a price book, this is the place to add it.
Exchange rate fee
A percentage that Breww takes off every exchange rate it looks up, to account for the cost of actually converting the money. It defaults to 0%.
With a 3% fee, 100 USD at a market rate of 80.00 GBP would be recorded as 77.60 GBP, so foreign currency amounts are worth slightly less in your base currency than the raw market rate would suggest.
A preview under the field shows what 100 units of a few common currencies would convert to at today's rates, both with and without your fee, and it updates as you type.
When you save a change to the fee, Breww immediately refreshes the stored exchange rates on your supplier stock items, price book products and deals using today's rates and your new fee. Documents that already captured a rate when they were created, such as invoices, credit notes and inventory receipts, keep the rate they were created with.